Sidharth Rajaram
Sidharth is a high school senior with a strong interest in math and programming, especially Python.
Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 13 & 14, 2018Session
Web Scraping with Python
Whether it is for your machine learning project or just retrieving site text, web scraping is an important skill to have. We'll create simple Python web scrapers that can be used to retrieve sports statistics or stock prices.
About This Session
Sometimes the data you want is stuck on a website, in the form of a table or paragraph. Whether it is for your machine learning project or just viewing site text, web scraping is an important skill to have. Using BeautifulSoup, we can create a simple Python web scraper that can be used to retrieve sports statistics or stock prices. We will begin with a preface about BeautifulSoup, Pandas, and other helpful libraries. Following that we’ll work through the implementation of some scrapers and then have a discussion about how to move forward with scraped data. This presentation should clear up doubts and hopefully spark new ideas in your heads.
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